Stocky, Shopify's free inventory app, is being discontinued. It stops working on August 31, 2026, and it was already removed from the Shopify App Store on February 2, 2026. If you have leaned on Stocky to keep your shelves stocked, that gives you a fixed window to move to something else before it goes dark.
This guide walks through what is actually disappearing, how to get your data out while you still can, and how to figure out what you really need to replace.
What's actually going away
Stocky did several jobs at once, and all of them stop working after the deadline:
- Purchase orders
- Demand forecasting
- Stock transfers between locations
- Supplier management
- Low-stock alerts and reorder reminders
It is worth being clear-eyed about this: after August 31, 2026, none of it keeps running. There is no read-only mode to fall back on. Whatever part of Stocky you depend on, you need a plan for it before then.
Export your data before the deadline
This is the part that is easy to put off and expensive to get wrong.
Stocky lets you export some reports as CSV, so pull those now rather than later. But there is a real limitation you need to know about: suppliers and historical purchase orders cannot be exported. That data does not come out of Stocky in any usable file.
So before August 31, screenshot or manually record anything critical that lives only inside Stocky - supplier contact details, lead times, cost histories, and any past purchase orders you might need to reference. Once the app is gone, that information is gone with it.
Figure out what you actually used Stocky for
This is the question that decides everything else, and it is worth being honest with yourself about the answer.
Many merchants installed Stocky for one reason: the low-stock alert and reorder reminder. They never touched the forecasting models or the purchase-order workflow. If that describes you, you do not need a heavy - and often pricey - inventory-planning platform to replace it. You need focused low-stock alerts, and not much more.
If, on the other hand, you genuinely used the purchase-order, supplier, and demand-forecasting side of Stocky, then you are looking for a dedicated inventory-planning tool. That is a different category of product, and you should evaluate it on those terms.
Sorting yourself into one of these two buckets first will save you from overpaying for features you never wanted.
Replacing low-stock alerts
If you landed in the alerts-only bucket, this is where StockAlert fits.
StockAlert is a focused low-stock and out-of-stock alert app. It sends alerts by email and Slack, supports per-variant thresholds, and offers multi-location coverage on its higher plans. There is a free tier, so you can replace Stocky's alerting without taking on a new monthly cost right away.
To be honest about what it is not: StockAlert is an alerting tool, not a purchase-order system and not a forecasting engine. If you need those, this is not the replacement for that side of Stocky.
For the migration itself, the path is straightforward. Export your low-stock report from Stocky as a CSV, then import those thresholds into StockAlert's bulk settings. That way you carry over the reorder points you already trust instead of rebuilding them by hand.
A short checklist
Here is the whole thing in order:
- Mark the deadline. Stocky stops working on August 31, 2026.
- Export and record what you can - and remember that suppliers and historical purchase orders do not export, so capture those manually.
- Decide whether you need alerts only or full inventory planning.
- Set up your replacement before August 31 so there is no gap in coverage.
The merchants who handle this well are the ones who start early. Sorting out which bucket you are in today means you are not scrambling in late August when the app goes away.
More questions? See the StockAlert FAQ.